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The Old Delhi tribunal on Friday directed the medical board at the Maulana Azad Medical faculty (MAMC) to look at 2 ladies UN agency had stirred court seeking permission to abort their foetus after 20 weeks due to some abnormalities.A bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh directed that the Director Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Chairperson of the Permanent Medical Board of the Medical Termination of maternity (MTP) cases, to right away assess each the ladies separately. The court same that if the board finds that it's safe to terminate maternity, it should be done on Saturday itself.The order comes as the court was hearing two identical petitions during which the ladies had stirred court seeking permission to abort as their vertebrate had abnormalities. While one in all the ladies discovered that her vertebrate was littered with a walking syndrome, the opposite had found that her vertebrate was littered with severe oligohydramnios, enlarged echogenic kidneys and echogenic intestine, so inflicting severe near-fatal abnormalities.

The plea filed through advocate Sneha Mukherjee had additionally challenged the constitutional validity of 1 of the clauses within the MTP Act, that obligatory a cap of twenty weeks on women for an abortion.

On Friday, the Delhi government’s counsel told that there is already a permanent medical board for such cases. Following this, the court ordered the medical board to examine the women and also sought the response of the Centre on the plea.The matter would be now heard on September 23. The plea, filed through advocate Sneha Mukherjee, said, “This challenge is to the impact that the twenty weeks stipulation for a woman to avail abortion services below section 3(2) (b) of the Act might are cheap once the section was enacted in 1971 however has ceased to be cheap these days wherever technology has advanced and it's absolutely safe for a girl to abort at any purpose throughout the whole amount of physiological state.Secondly, determination of foetal abnormality in many cases can only be done after the 20th week and by keeping the ceiling artificially low, women who obtain reports of serious foetal abnormality after the 20th week have to suffer excruciating pain and agony because of the deliveries that they are forced to travel through,” the plea said.

The ceiling of twenty weeks is so “arbitrary, harsh, discriminatory and offensive of Articles fourteen and twenty one of the Constitution of India”, the petition has contended.The plea has conjointly challenged section five of the Act to the extent it states that the termination of a over 20-week physiological state be permissible providing it absolutely was straightaway necessary to save lots of the life of the mother.It has contended that this section was “unconstitutional”, as it does not take into account the problem of severe foetal abnormalities discovered after the 20th week and also does not recognize the physical and mental health and well being of the woman as being part of the expression ‘life’.“

The physical and mental trauma involved in delivering a foetus with severe abnormalities is nowadays not thought-about ground enough for abortion post twenty weeks below section five of the Act,” the petition has said.The plea has said that within the instant case, the denial of associate degree abortion to the girl, thanks to provisions of the Act, “has caused her extreme anguish and has forced her to continue her pregnancy while being aware that the vertebrate might not survive”.It has claimed that “as written, the MTP Act encourages desperate women, who learn about a foetal abnormality after the 20th week, to seek out unsafe abortions from undisciplined medical personnel”. Illegal abortions are the third leading cause of maternal death in India and account for 13 per cent of maternal deaths worldwide, the petition said.

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